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Dirk Lanzerath graduated in philosophy and biology. He is executive officer of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE), a research centre of the Northrhine Westfalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Bonn. He is professor of ethics at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and secretary general of the European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC). Prof. Lanzerath is also a member of the Central Ethics Committee at the German Physician Association (ZEKO), the Ethics Committee of the University of Maastricht, and the Editorial Board of the Journal "Research Ethics Review.

Ulrich Schurr is a plant physiologist and heads the Institute of Plant Sciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Research Center Jülich - IBG:2 Plant Sciences). The institute is a world leader in plant phenotyping, developing quantitative methods for analyzing plant architecture and function in controlled environmental conditions and in the field, and translating these methods with partners into practical applications in horticulture, agriculture and breeding. He initiated and coordinates the German Plant Phenotyping Network DPPN. He is the chairman of the ESFRI project EMPHASIS and president of the global International Plant Phenotyping Network (IPPN). Uli Schurr has been leading the Bioeconomy Science Center, the largest European research network on sustainable bioeconomy based on the cooperation of the Universities of Bonn, Aachen, Düsseldorf and the Research Center Jülich, for 10 years. He initiated the Bioeconomy REVIER initiative to establish a model region for sustainable bioeconomy in the context of structural change in the coal-phase out in one of the coal-phase out regions in Germany. Ulrich Schurr is a member of the International Advisory Council for Global Bioeconomy (IACGB).



Christina Pinsdorf is a philosopher with a specialization in ethics. She holds a permanent post-doc position as